Arm-rest.



No. 744,287. PATENTE) Nov. 17, 1903.

R. H. BRASBL.

ARM REST.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 19. 1903.

N0 MODEL.

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adapted to rest one upon the other.

UNITED STATES Patented November 17', i903.

ROYAL HINDS BRASEL, OF MUSKOGEE, INDIAN TERRITORY.

ARM-REST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,287, dated November17, 1903.

Application {iled February 19. 1903. Serial No. 144,140. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ROYAL HINDS BRASEL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Muskogee, Creek Nation, Indian Territory, have invented anew and useful Arm-Rest, of which the following is a specication.

My invention is an improvement in armrests; and the object of the deviceis to produce a rest especially adapted for the use of writers using asurface gradually decreasing in height relative to the surface of thetable or desk on which the Writing material is placed.

vThe device is adapted not only for use of express, money-order, andother clerks using pads of considerable thickness and which thicknessdecreases as the sheets are gradually used and torn from the pad, butcan also be used by bookkeepers using heavy books,

which books are often made up of a great' many pages, and when writingadjacent the bottom of the page the hand cannot rest on the page, andthe leaf is often too far above the desk on which the book rests topermit the hand to be steadied on the desk while writing.

The special object of my device, therefore, is to produce an arm-restthe upper surface of which will be approximately in the plane of thesurface being written on.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing mydevice in p0- sition for use. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the severalsections comprising the device, each section being shown detached. Fig.3 is a detail perspective view showing the manner of securing thesections together, one end being partly broken away. Fig. 4 is a sideelevation of a slightly-modified form.

In carrying out my improvement I employ a plurality of preferablyrectangular plates A, each detachable from the other and each, with theexception of the bottom plate, being The uppermost lplate has a smoothupper surface, and the bottom or base plate has a smooth under surface.For convenience of description the intermediate plates will bedesignated by the numerals l, 2, and 3, though it is of courseunderstood that any desired number of plates can be used. The undersurface of the top plate carries adjacent each end adownwardly-projecting doWel-pin B, which is adapted to fit inperforations or sockets B',

formed in plate l. The under surface of this plate carries dowel-pins C,arranged adjacent diagonally opposite corners of the plate. Plate 2 hasperforations C', adapted to aline with the pins O, and on its undersurface in the non-perforated corners are the pins D. Perforations D inplate 3 are adapted to receive the pins D, and on its under surface this.plate carries the pins E, adapted to fitin the perforations E' ofthebase-plate.

In the drawings, F represents the surface to be written upon, and thevarious plates secured together arev placed adjacent this surface. Asthe height of the writing-surface above the desk decreases the height ofthe arm-rest is decreased by removing the surface-plate A, and the armor hand rests on plate I; and as the thickness of the pad is furtherreduced plate l is removed and plate 2 becomes temporarily the topplate, and so on untila new pad is substituted, when the rest is againbuilt up. The rest can also be adjusted for use with any book by usingthe proper number of plates.

While I prefer to make the plates of hard wood, they may be made of anydesired material and of any size.

In Fig. 4. a slight modification is shown, the top plate A and plates l2 3 being the same shown in Fig. 2; but the bottom plate is lengthened,as shown at A', and extends beneath the pad, and the part A' can also beinserted beneath or between the leaves, as may be most convenient.

As previously stated, any number of plates can be used in building up myrest.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. An arm-rest comprising base and t`opi plates, removable intermediateplates, and means carried Vby the top and intermediate plates forlocking them to the plate immediately beneath.

2. An arm-rest comprising a base-plate having sockets therein, a topplate having a smooth unbroken upper surface, perforated ROYAL HINDsBEASEL.

Witnesses:

B. A. RANDLE, K. M. RoWE.

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